Seeking panelist and presenter for ASEEES 2016

Dear Colleagues,
We are seeking a panelist and a panel moderator for a panel on
twentieth-century conceptualist art at the ASEEES
<http://www.aseees.org/> Convention
in Washington DC.
Please reply off-list to [email protected] if interested.

*"Conceptualizing Russian Art and Identity in the Cold War Era.​"​*

Thursday, Nov. 17, 5pm.

This panel is dedicated to investigating the interconnections
> between self-creation, collective formation and cultural production in
> Imperial, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. It explores the artist communities
> and networks of influence, the political context of the Cold War and late
> Soviet cultural policy which gave rise to the phenomenon of Conceptualism.
> Suspicious of both state authorities and artistic authorities alike,
> Russian conceptual artists of the Cold War period developed a radical
> aesthetics whose influence is felt in contemporary art to this day. The
> papers in this panel consider how artists navigate between communist and
> capitalist modes of art production and how their quest for an alternative
> mode of self-fashioning resonates in contemporary culture.

Chair: Vera Koshkina, Harvard U
> Paper 1: 'Shimmering Identity: the Counter-Ideology of Moscow
> Conceptualism'
> Daniil Leiderman, Princeton U
> Paper 2: 'Embracing the Periphery: Nonconformist Artists as Ideological
> Nomads'
> Clinton Buhler, Ohio State U

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